Improvement in the methods of manufacturing knit mittens



v E. H. PEARSON. Method of Manufacturing Knit-Mitten.

No; 221,351. Patented. Nov. 4, 1879.

N. PETERS. PHOTO-LITHGGRAPHER, WASHINGYON. 11 CV UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ENOOH H. PEARSON, OF EPIING, NETV HAMPSHIRE.

. IMPROVEMENT IN THE METHODS OF MANUFACTURING KNIT MlTTENS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,35 l, dated November 4, 1879; application tiled July 28, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ENOGI-I H. PEARSON, of Epping, in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improved Method of Manufacturing Knit Mittens, of which the following is a specification.

This process relates and applies to mittens which are formed out of a continuous tubular knit web.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a portion of the tubular knit web. Fig. 2 is a view of the completed mitten.

My improved process or method of manufacturing the mitten is as follows: The yarn having been set up on the knitting-machine, the tubular or hand port-ion a is commenced at the end a, and is knit around upon the cylinder until the point a is reached. At that point it is knit back and forth for ashort time, thus producing the longitudinal opening or slit b. When the point a is reached the hand portion a isagain knit around the cylinder until the proper place is reached for anotherlongitudinal thumb-opening. The tubular-web is cut off the length required for the hand, and the thumb is knit on in the'following manner: The incomplete mitten is taken toanother machine having a small cylinder of suitable size to knit the thumb. In knitting the thumb I commence at the point a, Fig. 2, and knit back and forth to the selvages on each side the longitudinal slit b, picking on the ends of each row of stitching to the corresponding stitches on the two opposite sclvages of the slit, and making each row 0tstitching a little longer than the next preceding row, until the point a is reached. Thus far t'. 0., from a to a-the thumb is practically a flat web of gradually-increasing width. The remainder of the thumb is knit continuously around until the proper length is reached. The hand and thumb are then sewed up at their outer ends, and the mitten is complete. By this process the shape of the thumb may be varied as desired.

.It will readily be seen that by widening the thumb-web from a to a i. 0., by adding stitches to the rows more or less suddenlya greater orlessdegree of fullness and a greater or less angle are produced in the thumb. For example, if three more stitches were placed in each row than were contained in the next preceding row, more fullness and a greater angle would be produced than would be the case it each row had but two more stitches than the row next preceding. This process possesses the advantages also of being rapid and inexpensive.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The hereinbefore-described method or process of manufacturing machine-knit mittens, consisting of knitting the hand portion continuously, leaving therein alongitudinal thu mb-sli t, then forming the thumb by commencing with the lower end ot'said slit,and knitting back and forth, picking on each row of knitting to the opposite sclvages of the slit, and making each row longer than the next preceding row until the upper end of the slit is reached, then knitting continuously around the thumb-cylinder until the outer end of the thumb is reached, and closing the outer ends of the hand and thumb, substantially as set forth.

ENOOH H. PEARSON.

Witnesses:

HOSEA B. BURNHAM, ENocH W. PEARSON. 

